maya and nuke are both fine on cent7, not sure about redacted ;-) but have experience with deadline, redshift and several others, all good.GregOn Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Alfred Young <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote:

Gregs,

Thanks for the responses.

We use the usual DCCs (Maya, Nuke, <redacted>, <redacted>), but our shop is always testing and evaluating new software. At some points, I'm also developing and working with new packages that require a more recent kernel and everything else that comes with it. I think I spend more time in build hell than I actually do any work.

maya and nuke are both fine on cent7, not sure about redacted ;-) but have experience with deadline, redshift and several others, all good.GregOn Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Alfred Young <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote:

Gregs,

Thanks for the responses.

We use the usual DCCs (Maya, Nuke, <redacted>, <redacted>), but our shop is always testing and evaluating new software. At some points, I'm also developing and working with new packages that require a more recent kernel and everything else that comes with it. I think I spend more time in build hell than I actually do any work.

We use the usual DCCs (Maya, Nuke, <redacted>, <redacted>), but our shop is always testing and evaluating new software. At some points, I'm also developing and working with new packages that require a more recent kernel and everything else that comes with it. I think I spend more time in build hell than I actually do any work.

I'll point our team to this thread in hopes we can start a dialogue.

Thanks all, it's scary but I think we can manage it.

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Response from Greg Dickie @ Dec. 14, 2017, 11:35 a.m.

What applications are you using? 7 is definitely better than 6 once you drink the koolaid. My advice is not to fight it. At first we tried to ignore NetworkManager and get back to the device names we were used to. Don't do that. systemd is the same thing.GregOn Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 2:52 PM, greg whynott <greg.whynott@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, no 6->7 upgrade path to speak of, you have to start from scratch. Even the default filesystem is different from 6 to 7, it is typically ext4 for RHEL/CentOS 6, and XFS for RHEL/CentOS 7. Read up on systemd and learn to accept it (there's probably a 12 step process for that), at first it will feel weird and wrong, but no use fighting it unless you plan to switch to a systemd-less distro...

Unfortunately, there really aren't any 'migration' tools that I know of, if that's what you're looking for. Can't just yum update release to get to 7. At least that's what's been said on the CentOS forums. You could try adjusting the paths to the repositories, but I have a feeling that won't work out too well ;)

In terms of material, is there anything specific you're looking for? Trevor and the team on the CentOS forums are a great help if you run into any trouble. I'm using C7 (currently 1611, going to 1708 soon) as my daily driver and it's been fantastic. I think you'll like it!

Yeah, no 6->7 upgrade path to speak of, you have to start from scratch. Even the default filesystem is different from 6 to 7, it is typically ext4 for RHEL/CentOS 6, and XFS for RHEL/CentOS 7. Read up on systemd and learn to accept it (there's probably a 12 step process for that), at first it will feel weird and wrong, but no use fighting it unless you plan to switch to a systemd-less distro...

Unfortunately, there really aren't any 'migration' tools that I know of, if that's what you're looking for. Can't just yum update release to get to 7. At least that's what's been said on the CentOS forums. You could try adjusting the paths to the repositories, but I have a feeling that won't work out too well ;)

In terms of material, is there anything specific you're looking for? Trevor and the team on the CentOS forums are a great help if you run into any trouble. I'm using C7 (currently 1611, going to 1708 soon) as my daily driver and it's been fantastic. I think you'll like it!

I understand I'd probably have to start fresh, but maybe a set guide of things to look out for.

Python of course, major application issues, etc.

Thinking about this some more, I think the only way to really know what'll work (or not) is if I find a host machine I can tinker with.

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Response from Jean-Francois Panisset @ Dec. 13, 2017, 3:25 a.m.

Yeah, no 6->7 upgrade path to speak of, you have to start from scratch. Even the default filesystem is different from 6 to 7, it is typically ext4 for RHEL/CentOS 6, and XFS for RHEL/CentOS 7. Read up on systemd and learn to accept it (there's probably a 12 step process for that), at first it will feel weird and wrong, but no use fighting it unless you plan to switch to a systemd-less distro...

Unfortunately, there really aren't any 'migration' tools that I know of, if that's what you're looking for. Can't just yum update release to get to 7. At least that's what's been said on the CentOS forums. You could try adjusting the paths to the repositories, but I have a feeling that won't work out too well ;)

In terms of material, is there anything specific you're looking for? Trevor and the team on the CentOS forums are a great help if you run into any trouble. I'm using C7 (currently 1611, going to 1708 soon) as my daily driver and it's been fantastic. I think you'll like it!

Unfortunately, there really aren't any 'migration' tools that I know of, if that's what you're looking for. Can't just yum update release to get to 7. At least that's what's been said on the CentOS forums. You could try adjusting the paths to the repositories, but I have a feeling that won't work out too well ;)

In terms of material, is there anything specific you're looking for? Trevor and the team on the CentOS forums are a great help if you run into any trouble. I'm using C7 (currently 1611, going to 1708 soon) as my daily driver and it's been fantastic. I think you'll like it!